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Re reading all the Susan Hill ‘Serailler’ books Enjoying them all again

I have just finished the latest by BA Paris, The Dilema. I read it in a day, just couldn't put it down.

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I've just downloaded The Thursday Murder Club but haven't yet started it. At the mo, I'm barrelling through Anne Cleeves' Vera books, having only just discovered her (the author, not the detective). I read all the Shetland books in a week. A box set of the Shetland series will be on my Christmas list for sure.

Suddenly after many years in the wilderness, I'm back to reading voraciously. This thread is GN gold - as they say.

A lovely book “The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth” by Frances Wilson, even with the gold writing on the cover which usually puts me off.
The relationship between Dorothy and her brother was unusually intense, she devoted her whole life to him, fascinating.

I'm a third the way though Jodi Picoult's book Small Great Things, about a black nurse and a white supremacist in the US.

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth” by Frances Wilson, even with the gold writing on the cover which usually puts me off.
The relationship between Dorothy and her brother was unusually intense, she devoted her whole life to him, fascinating. get-mxplayer.in

The Thursday Club Richard Osman

It is light hearted and a real pleasure.

I recently finished "Moonflower Murders" by Anthony Horowitz, which is an Agatha Christie pastiche, featuring quirky private investigator, Atticus Pund, no prizes for guessing who he is based on. It's written in a book within a book format and the crime connects the two narratives. I enjoyed it.

I have Robert Galbraith's "Troubled Blood" waiting for me, my husband has just finished it he liked it a lot, it's quite a tome, nearly 1000 pages so I'm hoping Strike and Robin's relationship will have moved forward, but the end of it at least.

Richard Osman's book sounds quite good it's certainly riding high in the charts at the moment.

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I've recently read 'Allie and Bea' and 'Worthy'. both by Catherine Ryan Hyde, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and 'The Woman in the White Kimono' by Ana Johns, which I quite liked, but not my favourite.

Just finished The Silent Treatment , I read. it in two days,
did enjoy it some of it was a bit long winded and more or less guessed what way it was going but well worth a try

I've just finished "The Golden Rule" by Amanda Craig. Taking inspiration from "Strangers on a Train" two women and a chance meeting whilst travelling from London down to Cornwall with a carriage to themselves. During the course of the journey, discussions about their prospective relationship problems arise and apropos of those, one of the women the more dominant force, coerces the other in a conspiracy to murder each others husbands. The narrative however doesn't unfold in a predictable way, many twists and turns. Whilst the main thrust of the plot is the muderous intentions of these two characters, the backdrop of the book is very much a state of the nation comment. Amanda Craig deftly puts across the pros and cons of Brexit set in a Cornwall of the have and have nots. I enjoyed this book very much, some similar themes to her last one "The Lie of the Land". Both these novels have been compared to Jonathan Coe's "Middle England" which I have also read, but imo Amanda Craig's book are better.

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Children of Wrath by Paul Grossman. It is very good and very scary, set in 1929 Berlin and tracing the German attitude to Jewish people as well as a detective story.

Currently reading and thoroughly enjoying ‘Crooked Heart’ by Lissa Evans. It’s the second in a trilogy - I’ve got the first & third in my Amazon wish list!

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I’m afraid my current read is not very cheerful, it’s ‘Auschwitz’ by Laurence Rees. I’m reading a lot of history books at the moment, perhaps a reaction to the strange and troubled times we are living through.

I have seen Marian Keyes mentioned on Amazon Bestsellers. What are her books about and can you recommend your favourite please ?

I’m reading The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and wondering what all the hype was about. I’m halfway through it and thinking ^am I the only one who’s underwhelmed by it?_.
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Just finished ‘Execution’ by S. J. Parris. Great edge-of-your-seat read. Unfortunately I had only read one of this series before and it was an early one so I have a lot of ground to make up reading the others, if I can stand the suspense.
Before that, Ann Cleeves’ “The Darkest Evening” - the latest in the Vera series. It doesn’t disappoint.

You aren't alone Urmstongran I found it very dull couldn't be bothered finishing it, gave up around the half way mark. I believe it's been snapped up for filming, by Stephen Spielberg no less! or so I read, maybe it will make a better dramatisation. I was very underwhelmed by the Normal People book but thought the tv production was wonderful.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It is a great novel and the best one to start with. It's a story that revolves around a sibling (jem and scout) and their lives which bring some unexpected twist and turns while living with their only single parent i.e. their father Atticus and caretaker Calpurnia.

The plot of the story at the start wasn't clear except the plot of Boo Radley because the narrations would get deep into some incidents and suddenly change course, this happened a no. of times. Later we realize that these brief narrations depict the emotions that childrens feel as the story is narrated from scout (8 year old) Point of view.

Since ‘Execution’, I have read “Quantum Curators and the Faberge Egg” by Eva St John, “State of Treason” by Paul Walker, and The Einstein Prophesy by Robert Masello. The latter was a cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and a long lecture on quantum physics.